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The interactions of charm and bottom quarks in a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) are evaluated using a thermodynamic 2-body T-matrix. We specifically focus on heavy-quark (HQ) interactions with thermal gluons with an input potential motivated by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Kyle Huggins , Ralf Rapp

Heavy quarks are effective probes to study the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In this contribution, the latest results on open heavy-flavour production in pp and Pb-Pb…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-09-21 Luuk Vermunt

In the first part of the talk, we briefly review the problem of parton-energy loss and thermalization at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider and discuss how heavy quarks (charm and bottom) can help to resolve the existing experimental and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 R. Rapp , D. Cabrera , H. van Hees

The drag and diffusion coefficients of charm and bottom quarks propagating through quark gluon plasma (QGP) have been evaluated within the framework of perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (pQCD). Both radiative and collisional processes of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-02-08 Santosh K Das , Jan-e Alam

Heavy-ion collisions at very high colliding energies are expected to produce a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at the highest temperature obtainable in a laboratory setting. Experimental studies of these reactions can provide an unprecedented…

The physics of heavy-ion collisions is one of the most exciting and challenging directions of science for the last four decades. On the theoretical side one deals with a non-abelian field theory, while on the experimental side today's…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-22 Marcus Bleicher , Elena Bratkovskaya

We extend our investigation of heavy quark transport coefficients in the effective dynamical quasiparticle model (DQPM) -- which reproduces nonperturbative QCD phenomena in the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (sQGP) according to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-08 Ilia Grishmanovskii , Taesoo Song , Carsten Greiner , Elena Bratkovskaya

Dielectrons from heavy flavor hadron decays not only constitute a crucial background to their thermal spectrum in high-energy nuclear collisions, from which the temperature of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is extracted, but also provide a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-02 Lejing Zhang , Wen-Jing Xing , Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin

We study the transport dynamics of charm quarks within an expanding quark-gluon plasma for Pb+Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV. The analysis incorporates the hydrodynamical approach-MUSIC with fluctuating IP-Glasma initial state and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-25 Manu Kurian , Mayank Singh , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

Understanding the hadronization of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) remains a challenging problem in the study of strong-interaction matter as produced in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions (URHICs). The large mass of heavy quarks renders…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-02-05 Min He , Ralf Rapp

An overview is given of the theoretical developments on heavy quarks and quarkonia in heavy-ion collisions as reported at the "Hard and EM Probes 2018" conference. Specifically, we address progress in the understanding of heavy-flavor…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 Ralf Rapp

Heavy-flavour hadrons, containing open or hidden charm and beauty flavours, are considered as hard probes of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), which is a hot and dense phase state of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) matter. Production of heavy…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-10-26 Chun-Lu Huang

Heavy quarks (i.e. charm and beauty) in heavy-ion collisions are initially produced out of kinetic equilibrium via hard partonic scattering processes. However, recent measurements of anisotropic flow of charmed hadrons pose the question…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-19 Federica Capellino , Andrea Dubla , Stefan Floerchinger , Eduardo Grossi , Andreas Kirchner , Silvia Masciocchi

We analyze the possibilities for studying properties of dense QCD-matter, created in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions, by hard QCD-production processes, so-called "hard" probes -- heavy quarkonia, hard jets, high mass dimuons. Special…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 I. P. Lokhtin

Heavy-flavor observables are valuable probes of the quark-gluon plasma, which is expected to be produced in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. These experiments offer the unique opportunity to study strongly interacting matter at high…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-10-14 Marlene Nahrgang

We study the heavy quark scattering on partons of the quark gluon plasma (QGP) being especially interested in the collisional (elastic) scattering processes of heavy quarks on quarks and gluons. We calculate the different cross sections for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-02 H. Berrehrah , E. Bratkovskaya , W. Cassing , P. B. Gossiaux , J. Aichelin , M. Bleicher

Heavy flavor particles provide important probes of the microscopic structure and thermodynamic properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. We study the energy loss and flow of charm and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-13 Shu-Qing Li , Wen-Jing Xing , Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin

Heavy quarks, produced in hard parton scatterings in the early stage of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, are ideal probes to investigate the properties of the Quark--Gluon Plasma (QGP) produced in such collisions. Measurements of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-06-02 Auro Mohanty

We adopt a $T$-matrix approach to study quarkonium properties and heavy-quark transport in a Quark-Gluon Plasma. The $T$-matrix approach is well suited to implement potential scattering and thus provides a common framework for low-momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-18 R. Rapp , F. Riek , H. van Hees , V. Greco , M. Mannarelli

The goal of the ultra-relativistic heavy ion program is to study Quantum Chromodynamics under finite temperature and density conditions. After a couple of decades of experiment, the focus at the top RHIC and the LHC energy has evolved to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-10-03 Xin Dong